Its looking much better tonite but still not up to snuff. I believe I will up the water flow. It seems the little fluval 2 I use is not optimal for this type of tank...looking into that right now.
everyday brings some other issue and lesson...some good some bad. The motor on my skimmer just stopped. I have been gone all day and came into a quiet room??? sure enough. dead. I will post my questions about an upgraded motor in the proper forum.
Thanks as always....check'n out the eco system website also luna. thanx again.

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Grand dad ' make SURE you get that pump unplugged' and i "wonder" if that pump was going bad the night or 2 before ( hence it was emitting wattage into the sump / tank ) ???

I had a UV light sterilizer pump go bad on me one time and didint notice it for like 3 days and i went to change the filter in the sump area ( sticking my hands in the water ) needless to say i felt it then .

but PRIOR to that for like 3/4 days i'd noticed my corals kind of closing up and not responding much , turned out it was that pump and after all the money , time, effort ,planning , a hopefull dreams , it was dashed simply cause i'd forgotton and didint realize the importance of a 10$ GROUND PROBE .

heres a link to one' of many that are availible, should any one be interested

Hey now,
Pulled the pump last night before I responded..gone for today and returned around 4:00 and the brain was looking "all good"... installed my grounding probe and replaced that stupid little flaval 2 with a nice Koralia1 @ 400gph...I cannot believe the results...Dam near Immediate..polops, bubble coral, GBT, The brain, deep green and pulsing like never before....water flow is im-por-tent fo' sure !
I got the testing kit for phosphate and calcium...I will test here tonite...post results in the chemistry forum.
Thanx again everyone....I learned a bunch and improved the conditions of my /thier tank.

one more thing is how do you test your salinity if it by hydrometer have you ever checked it against a refractometer to make shure it is accurate I was having issues with my brains a while back and it was due to salinity beeing to high because my hydrometer was reading .005 low I thaught salinity was 1.026 but was realy at 1.030 yikes also lost a couple of fish due to this

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